Friday, May 02, 2008

Global Warming: What Will The Next Decade Bring?

Fair bit of blogosphere commentary on this story about a team of German reseachers who

...predict...a slight cooling of Europe and North America, probably related to shifting currents and patterns in the oceans......over the course of the next decade, after which they expect AGW to overwhelm natural climate variability.

And New York Times writer Andy Revkin wonders if our short human attention spans will not drift away from AGW as a political issue if the warming trend is not continually and relentlessly upward. He puts it a bit differently, of course:

2 comments:

My understanding of AGW is that it is supposed to increase steadily so "what the next decade brings" is of great interest. I think that our response (or lack of) to AGW will be forged over the next decade.